music notes 4-7-05

Every Wednesday, now through the summer, Recycled
Records (625 E. Adams St., 217-522-5122) will feature area music acts from
5:30-7:30 p.m. and stay open until 8. Last week, in case you missed it,
Resident Genius played the first concert. On Wednesday, April 13, Josh
Reilly, co-host of the Underground City Tavern’s Tuesday open mic,
strums his guitar and fills the hallowed halls with his ever-pleasing voice
and outstanding song selection. As they say at the store: Silence sucks.
Remember the delightful female
trio known as Tres Femmes that charmed the pants off crowds at Recycled
Records during the Christmas walk last year and worked over listeners at
Jazz Central Station after that? The group is now on hold, but the
individual gals are working the country hard. Una
femme, Victoria Vox, rolls into Floyd’s
Thirst Parlor (212 S. Fifth St., 217-522-2020) at 9:30 p.m. Monday, April
11, as the scheduled guest for Eric Welch’s Monday Open Mic. Hosts
Welch and the Disputes run a lively stage featuring a special guest each
week. Upcoming artists include Micah Walk, Jill Manning, Fred Manker, and
Raoul.
The amazing Prairie Grapevine
Folklore Society continues to organize and advertise concerts, preparing a
monthly offering that one might call, in another line of work, a quality
product. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at the Abraham Lincoln Unitarian
Universalist Congregation, 745 Woodside Rd., the PGFS presents Tribus
Futuras, an Andean (i.e., from the Andes Mountains) group based in Chicago.
Founders Luis and Susan Alban perform on a wide variety of musical
instruments, including the classical and 12-string guitars, plus the charango, cuatro llanero, zampona, quena, ocarina, native goatskin drum, chagchas, and bamboo and metal chimes. Tickets are $10, and seats
are plentiful. There’s no smoke to breathe, just delightful desserts
to be purchased and consumed at intermission. Children are encouraged to
attend and bring their parents.
Rockabilly lives in the lives
of the members of the Two Timin’ 3, a trio from out New England way.
They do their hair, wear their clothes, and play rockabilly just as folks
used to do nearly 50 years ago. No neo- or alt- or other hyphenated
descriptions needed here — this is true-blue, by-the-book,
original-not-extra-crispy rockabilly music. Dress up and come on down to
the Underground City Tavern (700 E. Adams St., 217-789-1530) at 9 p.m.
Thursday, April 7, for a swingin’ good time.